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Item Community gardening toolkit : a resource for planning, enhancing and sustaining your community gardening project(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2026) McKelvey, Bill"A community garden serves different purposes for different people. For some, a community garden is a place to grow food, flowers and herbs in the company of friends and neighbors. For others, it's a place to reconnect with nature or get physical exercise. Some use community gardens because they lack adequate space at their house or apartment to have a garden. Others take part in community gardening to build or revitalize a sense of community among neighbors. Community gardens also take different shapes and forms. From a 50-by-50-foot church garden that supplies a local food pantry with fresh produce to a vacant city lot divided into plots and gardened by neighbors, community gardens reflect the needs and the desires of people directly involved in their management and upkeep. Because of these myriad differences, there are countless ways to organize and manage a community garden. Regardless of why people choose to take part in a community garden or how a garden is organized, the activity of gardening with others can be both rewarding and challenging. Our hope is that this guide will help you manage the challenges that come your way and experience the rewards of community gardening. This guide is intended to be a resource for gardeners, garden organizers, extension staff and other agency professionals who want to start a new community garden, enhance an existing garden or assist community members with starting and managing their own community garden." -- IntroductionItem Garden 'n Grow : Leader Handbook(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2026) Cabrera-Garcia, Juan"The Garden 'n Grow Leader Handbook (MP737) and Garden 'n Grow Gardener's Notebook (MP738) are publications designed to be used as curriculum for the Missouri Garden 'n Grow Program. The leader handbook contains 20 lesson plans(one for each week of the program), with activities to help children learn the basics of vegetable gardening while improving skills in math, science and language arts." -- first pageItem Pesticide applicator training manuals : ordering information(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2026)"Certification tests cover the core manual and all manuals in the categories of your business. Questions are also taken from the Missouri Pesticide Use Act (https://agriculture.mo.gov/plants/pesticides/pdf/missouri-pesticideuse- act.pdf) , obtainable from the Missouri Department of Agriculture." -- first pageItem USDA pesticide record-keeping requirements for certified private applicators of federally restricted-use pesticides(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2026) Fishel, Fred; Francka, Joe"The 1990 farm bill requires private certified pesticide applicators to keep records of all applications of federally restricted-use pesticides (RUP). The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)administers the Federal Pesticide Recordkeeping Program. Although applicators have 14 days to record information about an RUP application, it is best do so immediately after each application to ensure accurate and detailed records. These records must be maintained for two years. There is no required federal form on which to maintain your records; however, MU Extension publication MP693,Restricted-Use Pesticide Record-Keeping Form, can be downloaded, reproduced and used to be in compliance with the regulation." -- first pageItem An evaluation of selected native grasses and forbs for use as a forage to replace tall fescue and for enhanced wildlife habitat : results of a case study(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2026) Reinbott, Tim; Pierce, Robert; Wright, Ray; Naumann, Harley; White, Bill"A multiyear demonstration was developed at the MU Bradford Research Farm to determine the benefits of establishing native cool- and warm-season grasses, forbs and legumes as alternative forages that could potentially be used to replace tall fescue as a forage for use by livestock producers and to enhance wildlife habitat. One of the primary objectives of this project was to evaluate the yields and forage quality of native grasses and forb-legume mixtures compared to tall fescue, a nonnative cool-season grass that is the primary forage in pastures across Missouri (Figure 1)." -- first page